Exclusive: GOP poll of women: Party ‘stuck in past’ — A detailed report commissioned by two major Republican groups — including one backed by Karl Rove — paints a dismal picture for Republicans, concluding female voters view the party as “intolerant,” “lacking in compassion” and “stuck in the past.”

Obama's immigration decision could roil 2014 election — Both political parties are in a state of high anxiety over the possibility that President Obama will allow millions of illegal immigrants to remain in the country, fearing that White House action on the issue could change the course of November's midterm elections.

Poll: Romney breaks away in Iowa — The day after Mitt Romney opened the door to another possible presidential run, a new poll shows he has a huge lead among likely 2016 Iowa Republican caucus voters. — According to a USA Today/Suffolk University poll released Wednesday …

Why Hagan wins North Carolina — Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) is the target of what could be the most aggressive, dishonest, vindictive and lavishly financed negative campaign against any statewide candidate I've ever seen, yet according to the summary of polling from Real Clear Politics …

Obama Shouldn't Bomb ISIS in Syria — We have no strategy for intervening there, and no reason to think it will work. — Let's hope that President Obama does not bomb ISIS inside Syria—unless, maybe, the airstrikes are coordinated with some other country's troops on the ground.

The Extreme Partisanship of John Roberts's Supreme Court — Like Barack Obama, the chief justice came into office promising an age of apolitical comity. And like the president, he has seen his dream die. — “Politics are closely divided,” John Roberts told scholar Jeffrey Rosen after his first term as chief justice.

Did Tony die at the end of The Sopranos? — David Chase finally answers the question he wants fans to stop asking — The main topic of conversation about The Sopranos, seven years after the series finale, is still whether Tony Soprano, mob boss of North Jersey, is dead or not.

The Biggest Tax Scam Ever — Some of America's top corporations are parking profits overseas and ducking hundreds of billions in taxes. And how's Congress responding? It's rewarding them for ripping us off — In July, the American pharmaceutical giant AbbVie, maker of the world's top-selling drug …

Kirsten Gillibrand: Peers called me ‘porky’ — “Don't lose too much weight now. I like my girls chubby,” one lawmaker told Gillibrand. AP Photo — Close — New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand reveals in her new book that a number of her male colleagues on Capitol Hill made remarks about her weight …

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